Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Because article abstracts are easily accessible through databases, many researchers rely on abstracts for text mining rather than sourcing full-text articles. However, new research from bioinformaticians at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Denmark confirm that essential information remains hidden when only abstracts are mined.

Bio-IT World | A look back at the conferences held by Cambridge Healthtech Institute, covering a wide range of content focusing on bringing members of the biotech, next generation sequencing, IT, and personalized medicine communities to come together to promote innovation at the intersection between biology and technology.

Bio-IT World Contributed Commentary | Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies  are looking to leverage AI to reverse the decline in R&D productivity that has persisted in the face of other IT technologies, such as structure-based drug design or bioinformatics.

Bio-IT World | Foldit is an online puzzle video game designed to fold the structures of selected proteins as perfectly as possible. Recently, the developers of the game have been partnering with companies and institutions, including Mars Incorporated and Thermo Fisher Scientific, to help target the issue of carcinogens in food.

Bio-IT World Brief | Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Sema4, and collaborating institutions New York University and the University of Florida published a report detailing their new, more accurate method for identifying individual microbial species and strains in a community.

Bio-IT World | The findings from a study elucidating the differences in molecular alterations in multiple myeloma as a function of self-reported race and genetic ancestry were recently published in PLOS Genetics.